On the Creed:
A Sermon
to the
Catechumens
Chapter 9
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On the Creed:
A Sermon to the Catechumens
Translated by C. L. Cornish
Chapter 9
Of His cross what shall I speak, what say? This extremest kind of death He chose, that not any kind of death might make His Martyrs afraid. The doctrine He shewed in His life as Man, the example of patience He demonstrated in His Cross. There, you have the work, that He was crucified; example of the work, the Cross; reward of the work, Resurrection. He shewed us in the Cross what we ought to endure, He shewed in the Resurrection what we have to hope. Just like a consummate task-master in the matches of the arena, He said, Do, and bear; do the work and receive the prize; strive in the match and thou shall be crowned. What is the work? Obedience. What the prize? Resurrection without death. Why did I add, “without death”? Because Lazarus rose, and died: Christ rose again, “dieth no more, death will no longer nave dominion over Him.”
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